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Most of our event and activity ideas have fairly good staying power. Not this one! You have days to have fun with the return of the Twinkies, so have fun with it QUICK! Here are a few ideas to get you going: 1) Replace your office cookies with Twinkies for the week! People will think it is odd and delightful, as they probably haven't had a Twinkie in ages. 2) Replace breakfast on the go with Twinkies on the go! Yes, this is completely impractical as a breakfast, but tell them when they have that afternoon urge to get a snack, they will now be prepared. Something about giving out Twinkies to a line of cars coming out of the community just puts a smile on our faces. 3) Urge the community to get creative with a...

A while back, we shared a goofy party activity where we created a modern day fun house like the old school curved mirrors. Today, we found out about a completely different type of fun house device, called a speech jammer! Basically, it repeats your own speech back to you, which confuses your brain and has a fun side effect of making it really hard to talk. So try setting this up at your community event and record residents trying to speak while it is “jamming” their speech! After doing some research, it seems that the results vary depending on the app used and the person using it. You can search the mobile app store for some options, and here is a Windows version. Here is an example of a guy trying to give a gun...

I'm somewhat amazed at the improvement in slide technology over the past decade. And what's great about the party slide is that it is great for kids and adults. Trust me, your residents of all ages will get plenty of use out of it!
What other rent-able pieces of equipment would be a quick party starter?

No matter how much we wish it was the case, when an apartment community is first finding its way in creating a sense of community, most of the residents won’t know anybody else at a community event. And unlike many multifamily professionals who are unbelievable social butterflies, events like these can be an awkward mess for those that are not as socially adept. Part of the problem is that many people’s lives are fairly mundane – they work in an office job, for example, come home, watch some TV, etc. So until people find those critical commonalities, like they both love crocheting, for example, this event gives them temporary new lives to play with for the night! Basically, when someone comes to the event, you introduce that person to someone already at the event, but rather than, “This is Randy. He’s lived...

We noticed these pictures and thought they would be a fun thing to share in an apartment during an apartment tour. If you can’t tell from the pictures, those are sheets of bubble wrap that your prospects can play with as they walk around the apartment, gleefully snapping each bubble. In our many years, we have never run across someone who didn’t like to pop bubble wrap, and we thought this would be a fun way to help prospects remember your apartment community after they have had a long day of searching.
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